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		c-smile on March 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The human genome is full of viruses And the most fascinated fact is that, despite of all these intruders and mutators, living organisms are damn stable and pretty effective devices.

vikramkr on March 8, 2020 [–]

I mean, not that stable - the instability is kind of what allows evolution to happen. It's, well, it's good enough, stable enough, effective enough, and that's enough for life.

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